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Police in philly are getting hot and bothered over social media posts that talk shit about AI. Frankly, if your product is so bad that the police need to get involved, something is seriously wrong. If you've got credible evidence that people are concerned enough about Data Centers that you need to form an anti-terrorism task force, perhaps the police should look at why. Rather than blame citizens for trying to protect the communities they live in, ban the data centers and avoid the problem entirely.

As far as I'm concerned, data centers have no place in America. The don't add anything of value to our lives and they hurt the communities they're built in. However, I'm not in charge, and my power is limited to my vote. I don't think burning them down will help. In fact, violence will discredit the anti AI movement. Instead, we need to wipe this technology off the face of the planet in the only way these scumbags understand: by pulling our money out. Do not use Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other companies products if they use or perpetuate AI. I know I just posted a youtube video ten days ago. Maybe I should give that up.

I specifically stopped using Windows because of Co-Pilot and just recently de-googled my phone. There's no adjustment needed in switching to Linux and Graphene OS. You can install Linux Mint on anything made this century and it'll run near flawlessly. You don't need Youtube, and you don't need any of the other crap Google peddles. Especially if they're going to harm our communities with these data centers.

I'm preaching to the choir here, though. The First Ammendement is not up for debate, and nobody, anywhere, has the right to stifle your speech or mine. There's no need to make threats, because the majority believes AI sucks and it's perfectly feasible to make that happen without violence. It's only natural that police would have trouble understanding that there are non-violent means to reaching goals. To waste tax dollars tracking people who are fighting the digital equivelent of cigarettes is stupid, but whatever.

I mentioned an "anti-AI" movement earlier. The fact is, that doesn't exist. If you're alive in America right now, you're probably anti-AI. Out of the hundreds of people I know, only three of them are what I'd consider "pro-AI". All of them are kind of stupid. You know, the types that hop on to any bandwagon they see without thinking critically about it. The "I think NFTs are cool" kind of people. I don't give them much thought because they're idiots. I suspect that if this becomes a nationwide thing, it'll be way to difficult to track in any meaningful way. And if they use an AI to do it, it'll probably screw up so does it really matter in the end? No.

Youtube sucks now, and it's primarily the interfaces fault. The site seems to recommend high production value, TV-esque nonsense over actual people. Despite that, it's the only Google product I still use. Gemini has made search unusable, and lol at the idea of using something like Gmail for anything other than a throwaway. I used to use their cloud service until I realized it was idiotic to pay a company that makes it's money off of stealing data to store my data.

Still, I like the idea of Youtube. The fact that I can upload a video of myself playing an NES game is pretty cool. I don't know if I'll actually continue doing it, but we'll see. I've got one more in the pipeline after this. I still need to watch it myself before I release it to the public.

See, I don't actually care if this thing looks or sounds that great. Old Youtube didn't, and people enjoyed it just fine. Not to mention, NES games look better this way if you ask me.